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To the Moscow Security Department
From Assistant Sworn Counsel
Vladimir Ulyanov

PETITION

By order of the administrative authorities, I am subject to exile in Eastern Siberia for three years from the city of St. Petersburg. The Director of the Police Department permitted me, while still in St. Petersburg, to proceed to the city of Irkutsk on my own account with a travel pass, stopping for two days in Moscow to visit my mother.

Finding that it would be extremely burdensome for her to accompany me to Irkutsk owing to her weak state of health, and noting that the other exiles in the same matter have been sent by railway at government expense, my mother submitted a petition from Moscow to the Police Department Director requesting permission for me to remain with her somewhat longer and to be assigned to the exile party. This petition was sent on Tuesday, February 18th, by courier train so that it would be received in St. Petersburg on Wednesday and the Director would have time to issue one or another directive. But since postal communications are nonetheless quite slow and I feared that the period of my stay in Moscow might expire before the answer was received, on the very next day, Wednesday, February 19th, my mother sent a telegram to St. Petersburg to the Police Department Director, with prepaid reply—a telegram with a petition to permit me to remain with her for an additional week on account of her illness. Inquiries made at the telegraph office showed that no reply to the telegram has been received, and therefore I have decided to turn to the Moscow Security Department, supposing that the reply to the telegram and to the petition has been communicated to it beforehand.

At the present time, consequently, I find myself in an uncertain position: if the Police Department Director does not permit me to join